News & Notes: Two reported dead following Virgina Tech campus shooting

One victim, a policeman, was making a routine traffic stop when a man walked up to him and shot him at close range, police reported. The shooter then fled the scene, and, using a recently updated early warning system, the campus was locked down until later that afternoon.

The second victim was found about a quarter of a mile away from the scene of the first shooting. Though police did not identify the second man as the original shooter, following the discovery of the man on Thursday afternoon the police lifted the lockdown, saying that there was “no longer an active threat,” according to The New York Times.

Although most members of the Virginia Tech community suffered no physical harm from the event, many said that the shootings brought up bad memories of the 2007 shootings.

“It was unreal. It just didn’t feel like it was happening on this campus,” Hayley Bance, a freshman at Virginia Tech, said to the Times. “We saw these two police officers with huge guns. Then it started to feel real.”